To work out what we need for Cataclysm, we should look at the situation of Enhancement PvP in WotLK. From TBC to WotLK, we went from a burst dps class with disruption to a brute-force dps class, which is just terrible without MS. We're so highly dependant on Spirit Wolves, we're like 3-minute arcane mages from Vanillia. We need to work out what would make Enhancement a good PvP spec, not keep them as the terrible one comp purge/lust-bot spec that we are now.

Our ability to put out pressure outside of wolves is laughable. A big part of this is the obscene amount of instant heals/haste rating/haste talents that came in WotLK. Earth Shock/Wind Shear is only a 2s lockout, but it has a low cooldown, meaning it was really useful for constantly harassing healers throughout a match. This was basically our version of MS/Mana Burn/pressure. While long-cooldown, long-lockout interrupts and silences are still useful for creating kill opportunities our piddly 2s lockout means very little at the critical moments. From the Enhancement perspective, it's like every healer turned into the TBC druid except you can't even purge the heals off.

The massive amount of trash buffs hasn't helped the other big we bring to the table; purge. Have you ever tried to purge Sacred Shield off a Paladin? Or HoTs off a Druid with Natural Perfection going? It's horrific.

The final big problem with Enhancement PvP is with wolves. While wolves are up, we actually do good damage and aren't completely useless in arena. But since the duration AND the cooldown are so long, it basically means suck without it since our PvE damage is balanced without it. Reducing their CD, duration and damage would let us use their utility more, without making us such a tunneling brute force idiot spec to play.

I'm not sure how the pressure side of it can be fixed. The genie is out of the bottle with all the new heals/trash buffs that are out. Just giving us a MS effect might help our effectiveness but I would really like something that gives us back part of the uniqueness of our gameplay.

Edit: Not even going to into the retardedness that is Hex and Druids. Mages will feel our pain soon enough.

Heh, it was only just now, when I was updated the first thread that I noticed that the thread has actually been on page 2, where I didn't notice it in my page 1 Opera cache.

Updated the mega post (had to cut some of it, including the frostbranded and soe part cause i stupidly deleted my third placeholder post before updating and ran out of space!), as well as replied to your 2nd post there Panny. Little mega post of its own, but eh, i'm thorough in relating viewpoints.

Saw the new build info on MMO Champ and the one thing that stuck out to me was the stupid Tol Barad trinkets. Why do only casters get the Bandit's Insignia and melee only get this crappy on use function! Though with our active ability damage going up, I might actually not hate on use funciton trinkets anymore. Hmmm, we'll have to see.....

So with the addition of that +50% unleash elements, which part of unleash frostbrand does this effect? The slow or the duration? 75% slow seems pretty nice to me :-)

Wonder if that makes it pretty much down to 0% with another slow applied. Any in beta to test this would be nice.